Google Inc. is a multinational Internet search technologies corporation. Google hosts and develops numerous Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertis... Read more
This is a guest post from James Slavet of venture firm Greylock Partners. Slavet’s investments include Coupons.com, Groupon, One Kings Lane and Redfin. Greylock Partners has invested in Face... Read more
I recently got back from a month’s vacation — the longest I’ve ever taken, and a shocking indulgence for an American. (Earlier this summer, I was still fretting about how to pull... Read more
A US patent for self-driving cars has been awarded to Google. Driverless Car Google awarded US patent for technology The intellectual rights relate to a method to switch a vehicle from a hum... Read more
Researchers are claiming a new world record for data transfers over long distances. Data was moved back and forth at a combined rate of 186Gbps (gigabits per second), fast enough to transfer... Read more
History is forever a matter of remembering what has been. And 40 years ago, in this land, history took shape and form and substance, through reinventing itself on a declining December day. I... Read more
On 13 June 1971, an article in the UK’s Sunday Times exposed the brutality of Pakistan’s suppression of the Bangladeshi uprising. It forced the reporter’s family into hidin... Read more
In a hundred years trees may be growing where there are now glaciers. The warm climate of the last few years has caused dramatic melting of glaciers in the Swedish mountains. Remains of tree... Read more
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope presents a festive holiday greeting that’s out of this world. The bipolar star-forming region, called Sharpless 2-106, looks like a soaring, celestial snow ange... Read more
Australian scientists who modeled conditions on Mars to examine how much of the Red Planet was habitable said that “large regions” could sustain life. Charley Lineweaver’s... Read more
